Middle School Math In Depth
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Core Math
Using a hands-on approach through the College Preparatory Math curriculum, students:
Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning, both visually and in numeric form, to solve problems
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions
Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples
Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers
Write and interpret arithmetic and algebraic expressions
Reason about and solve one-variable equations
Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area and volume
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Pre-Alegbra
Using the College Preparatory Math Pre-Algebra Curriculum, students:
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real world and mathematical problems
Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers
Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions
Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations
Draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationship between them
Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, volume, cylinders, rectangular prisms
Graph data on scatter plots and determine line of best fit
Investigate chance processes and develop, use and evaluate probability models
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Algebra
Using the College Preparatory Math Algebra curriculum, students:
Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents
Use properties of rational and irrational numbers
Work with radicals and integer exponents
Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines and linear equations
Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Interpret the structure of expressions
Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems
Perform arithmetic operations on polynomials
Create equations that describe numbers or relationships
Solve equations and inequalities in one variable
Solve systems of equations
Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically
Define, evaluate, compare functions and use functions to model relationships between quantities
Understand and apply the Pythagorean theorem
Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically
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Geometry
Using the College Preparatory Math Algebra curriculum, students:
Understands congruence in terms of rigid motions
Proves geometric theorems and makes geometric constructions
Proves theorems involving similarity
Defines trigonometric ratios and solves problems involving right triangles
Applies trigonometry to general triangles
Understands and applies theorems about circles
Translates between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section
Uses coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically
Explains volume formulas and uses them to solve problems
Identifies relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects
Computes probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model